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SHERIFF`S OFFICE -- Several boxes of candy and pornographic magazines were reported stolen from a convenience store in the 9700 block of South Military Trail near Lantana. The thieves smashed out a window of the business with a lug-nut remover. The burglary was reported on Monday.

BOCA RATON -- The owner of Student Career Development was cited on Tuesday for having children sell candy door-to-door without a city permit, a Boca Raton police report said. Richard Garreffa, 49, of Pompano Beach was issued a notice to appear in court. Businesspeople in the 100 block of West Glades Road called police about 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday when two 10-year-old boys from Dania and Fort Lauderdale came to their offices to sell candy.

HOLLYWOOD -- Someone broke into a home in the 2300 block of North 59th Avenue Sunday, stole some food and ate it in the back yard before leaving, police said. Someone first broke into a shed in the yard, moved some things about and then cut a screen to gain access to the locked patio area. From the patio, the burglar or burglars took some peanuts, candy and a bottle of soda pop. It appeared that the burglars then made a party of the foods in the back yard and fled, police said.

Here's one way to sweeten the bitter aftertaste of the recent federal shutdown for visitors who were turned away from Washington attractions: a selection of architectural landmarks and national monuments from Chocolate Editions Unlimited. The company silk screens images of the White House, the Capitol and the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials in dark chocolate on white chocolate bars. The concept is the brainchild of Wilmington, Del., entrepreneur and artist Ed Przelomski and his wife, Cher.

Sweet food indeed. At 10 tonight, the devilishly delicious sitcom Strangers With Candy returns for its third twisted season on Comedy Central. The manic parody of mainstream morality is a cool cult cable dessert after a season of mostly insipid broadcast eats. It is also part of Comedy Central's summer season frontal attack. The all-chuckles channel launches the warped Brit-com The League of Gentlemen -- which previously aired on the BBC -- at 10:30 p.m. following Strangers With Candy.

DELRAY BEACH — A 30-year-old Boynton Beach woman was arrested Thursday after beating her children for eating candy at an All for 99 Cents store on Congress Avenue. Saintamene Brifin, who was released early Monday after posting a $6,000 bail, was charged with two counts of cruelty towards a child, police records show. When the store manager told Brifin that she would need to pay for the candy her children ate, Brifin hit her children with her fist and the candy, a police report said.

A north Florida judge has sentenced a 21-year-old homeless man to 180 days in jail for stealing $2 worth of candy. Delvis Rodriguez-Ramos - already on probation for theft - pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking Twix and Snickers bars from an Ocala store. The Ocala Star-Banner reports an employee noticed the candy missing Saturday. Rodriguez-Ramos denied taking the candy, but returned to the store Monday and confessed. The employee asked him to come back Tuesday to talk about it. When Rodriguez-Ramos showed up, the employee called police.

My husband got a great birthday gift that brought back a lot of memories for us both: Candy from the 1970s. I had not thought of this stuff for several decades and really got a kick out of these sugary snacks that we don't see anymore, especially Red Hots, Caramel Creams, Bit-o-Honey bars, Tootsie Pop Drops, Whatchamacallits and Razzles. The bubble gum cigars and Round Up candy cigarettes really made me laugh. Can you imagine candy cigarettes being sold today? I had to taste one and it tasted like chalk.

On Monday, 18-year-old Jose Manuel Torres Perez flew into South Florida with big bags of candy. But federal investigators said they weren't Halloween leftovers — they were a way for Torres to smuggle 21 pounds of cocaine. Torres, of Puerto Rico, is charged with importing 5 kilograms or more of cocaine into the United States. If convicted, he could serve from 10 years to life in prison, federal officials said. According to a criminal complaint, Torres arrived at 2:30 p.m. on an Avianca Airlines flight from Bogotá, Colombia, to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

A Lake Worth woman's life got a little less sweet after she was accused of breaking into two Lantana businesses and leaving police a trail of candy between the two crime scenes. Lantana police said Ashley Turner, 26, broke into an ice cream store and a gas station just before 3 a.m. on Thursday looking for money. She started the crime spree at an ice cream store, Philadelphia Water Ice, 614 N. Dixie Highway, according to an arrest report. Police were called to the scene after the store's alarm went off. When they got there, police said they saw a window had been removed from the business, but nothing appeared to stolen.